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On our first full day in Montenegro we drove into the Durmitor national park for a walk around this lake. Our daughters went swimming as I s

I sketched this quickly after we arrived in Pitomine, Žabljak, Montenegro. I slept on the plane coming from the UK and on arrival we picked

On this day we drove to Gatwick airport very early – I barely got any sleep. I sketched this at 4:30 am while we waited for our flight to Mo

After my last sketch I had a gap of two days in sketching. When we drove down from Manchester via Oxford to Hove again, we had a road accident – a big lorry drove in to us on the motorway. Th…

This is the last sketch I did in Manchester done outside The New Oxford pub, of the building where our daughter lived for two years. Although it’s been converted into apartments, they managed to ke…

I sketched this at the Whitworth (Art Gallery) cafe after going to see an exhibition called “Beneath the Great Wave: Hokusai and Hiroshige”, highlighting the famous woodblock landscape works of Edo…

While our daughter was working we went to look at the nearby Cathedral – which is newly refurbished. It threatened to rain repeatedly as we sat and sketched…windy and cold then suddenly sunny…

On this day we went into town for a last visit to Fred Aldous (a huge Manchester art materials store) and I indulged again by buying paper and some Caran D’Ache water soluble neocolour II Aquarelle…

After our visit in Calne we did a lot of driving and visiting friends (in Bath, Gloucestershire, Birmingham and finally getting to Salford)…so there is a bit of a break in my sketches during this t…

On this day we drove to the West Country and Calne in lovely weather. After chatting and eating in the garden of old friends we then went to a different kind of cultural event at Bowood House. This…

On this day we went to Preston Park in Brighton to watch Nick Cave. This quick sketch was done while the supporting act (English Teacher) were playing. After this we moved into the crowd, watching …

Here is a sketch done during a brief trip to the beach in Hove. I didn’t swim, but paddled…compared to the sea in the Philippines it was like standing in ice water. The day before this I spent a qu…

After our long walk over the Downs we walked around Lewes seeing the castle, a church, down the Twittens (a “twitten” is an old Sussex word for a narrow path or alleyway running between…

On this day we did a long walk over Malling downs and through the nature reserve there, outside Lewes. It turned out to be one of the hottest days of the week. Not a cloud in the sky and two trees …

After our long walk into Brighton we stopped at the little cafe in the Pavilion gardens for lunch and I sketched these random people. I think this sketch works better than most of my usual efforts,…

On this day we drove down to Hove – after saying goodbye to my mum in Suffolk. I sketched this when we arrived at my daughters house in the evening. Mon-27-Jul-2026